Ommersheim
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Ommersheim
community Mandelbachtal
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| Height : | 307 (255-372) m | |
| Area : | 12.13 km² | |
| Residents : | 2276 (Feb. 2016) | |
| Population density : | 188 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 66399 | |
| Area code : | 06803 | |
Location of Ommersheim in Saarland |
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 View of the center of Ommersheim
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Ommersheim is a part of the municipality of Mandelbachtal in the Saarpfalz district .
geography
location
Ommersheim is in the Saar-Lor-Lux region near the Saarbrücken-Ensheim airport , approx. 15 km east of the state capital Saarbrücken at the intersection of the L 107 and L 236 in the rural-structured Muschelkalkgebiet of the Bliesgau .
Expansion of the place
Today's Ommersheim includes the districts of Nussweiler, Ziegelhütte and Philippsburg.
Desert areas are Lindweiler (on the hill opposite Nussweiler) and Osthofen. (The desert was near today's Gangelbrunnen. Osthofenstrasse indicates this.) In the
past, the districts of Ormesheim (until 1721), Heckendalheim , Oberwürzbach (until 1925) and Rittersmühle also belonged to Ommersheim .
history
The beginnings
The first permanent settlement of today's local area probably falls in the time of the Frankish conquest, i.e. in the late 5th to 7th centuries. The villages with the name -heim are characteristic of this first Franconian settlement wave . The Ommersheim area was also settled in Roman times. This is proven by archaeological finds.
The place name
The home place names were usually formed from the personal names of the first settlers using the formula “personal names + genitive ending + home”. That means the name Ommersheim gives us an indication of an early personal name. Omer or Otmar would be conceivable .
10th to 14th centuries
The first documentary mention dates from the year 1180. Hermann, priest of Oimersheim is named as a witness in a document from the Wörschweiler monastery .
Around 1220 the place belonged to the rule of Zweibrücken , from 1252 to the monastery Wadgassen .
15th to 17th centuries
Around 1550: Secular rule over Ommersheim lay with the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken and the Junker von Steinkallenfels on the Nahe.
1563: As decided in the Council of Trier (1545 to 1563), a baptismal, marriage and death register was introduced for the first time in the parish of Ommersheim. St. Ingbert , Hassel , Rohrbach , Spiesen , Heckendalheim, Oberwürzbach, Aßweiler , Seelbach and Wecklingen belonged to the parish of Ommersheim .
A document has come down to us from the time before the Thirty Years' War which lists the names of the inhabitants of the "Meygerie zu Omersheim". Around the year 1543 Ommersheim therefore had six households, named as follows: Nickel Huffen, Hannsen Son, Mathern, Jakob Schneider, Der Schumacher, Veltin Scheffer, Annstet. The fortunate tradition of those names can be owed to a tax collection carried out by the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken because of an upcoming campaign against the Turks. In 1553 the "black death" (the plague ) raged in Bliesgau. In the years of 1573 and 1574 the area was again ravaged by the plague.
From 1618 to 1648, during the Thirty Years' War, hardship and destruction reigned. The area was particularly devastated by the Swedes. Hunger and epidemics followed this difficult time. After the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the fighting continued - mostly caused by the French . In 1651 almost nobody lived in today's communities of Ommersheim, Oberwürzbach and Heckendalheim.
In 1655 the place came into the hands of the Blieskasteler noble family of the "von der Leyen". New settlers came from the Palatinate , Lorraine , Luxembourg , Bavaria , Tyrol and Switzerland . In the Gersheim district of Rubenheim , the name of a festival still reminds of the settlement from that time: the "Kleintiroler Weiherfest". In “Leyenscher Zeit”, Ommersheim was a dairy farm.
1698 new immigration from Tyrol, Bavaria, Switzerland, Bohemia and Lorraine. In Ommersheim the church register shows 99 inhabitants, in St. Ingbert there are 88 people.
18th century
1721 Ormesheim was separated from Ommersheim.
On Christmas Eve 1731 a 15-year-old boy (Bernhard Hartz) was killed by a falling stone while the bell was ringing.
1778 dried up all the sources of the place to a source in the center, out of gratitude the people featured on the hunger Cross, one still has to see the Crossroads .
In 1786 the serfdom was lifted by Marianne von der Leyen .
Ommersheim played a special role in the revolutionary days of 1789.
On September 17th, farmers' representatives from all Leyen's communities met for a “landscape consultation” at Farmer Walle's. In their “25 Ommersheim Points” they summarized their complaints and handed them over to Marianne von der Leyen in the Blieskastel Castle .
1793 End of Leyen's reign.
As a result of the French Revolution , Ommersheim becomes a deployment area for a fierce battle between Prussia and Austria against France on November 16, 1793 near Biesingen . The French, led by General Hoche , defeated the Prussian troops in this battle. The obligations of supplying the French troops weighed on the people.
As if that weren't enough, 36 Ommersheim residents died of smallpox in 1794 .
1795 Ommersheim becomes French.
19th century
1801 After the Treaty of Lunéville, the dioceses are reorganized. In the canton of Blieskastel there are only the parish Blieskastel and eleven auxiliary parishes, including from 1803 the parish Ommersheim.
1802 Ommersheim has 447 inhabitants, the entire parish 733.
1814 Ommersheim becomes German again.
The reorganization of Europe set at the Congress of Vienna also had an impact on Ommersheim. With most of today's Saarpfalz district , the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 .
In 1827 the old church (the church tower and nave were Romanesque, the choir Gothic) was closed because it was dilapidated.
In 1829 there was already a new church in the village, which was greatly changed in the 1960s through an expansion. The former church now forms the choir.
On April 11, 1845, the municipal boundary between Niederwürzbach and Ommersheim was moved south along the Niederwürzbach – Hassel road. Ommersheim was much larger than today's local area, the border ran through the Niederwürzbacher Weiher. The area of today's Niederwürzbacher train station belonged to Ommersheim just like the Rittersmühle.
In the revolutionary year of 1848, Prussian troops occupied Ommersheim for 14 days.
In 1870 the local volunteer fire brigade was founded.
Between 1890 and 1900 Ommersheim was administered by a mayor from Heckendalheim, and the mayor's office (in addition to Ommersheim also today's Oberwürzbach and Rittersmühle) moved to the neighboring town. In 1900 the mayor's office went back to Ommersheim, the population exceeded the 1,000-inhabitant limit.
20th century
After the First World War , Saarland was separated from Germany as part of the Versailles Treaty and placed under a League of Nations mandate .
The waterworks in Obertal was built in 1900, and Ommersheim received a water supply.
Electrification begins in 1920.
In 1925 Oberwürzbach left the municipality of Ommersheim and became an independent municipality.
In 1927 local stone carvers took a spring in Wiesenthal, the Gangelbrunnen . Together with the “Ommersheimer Weiher” recreation area, the fountain is a popular destination.
In July 1929 the Ommersheim music association was founded.
On January 13, 1935, the district and the community came to National Socialist Germany after the referendum.
The first evacuation of Ommersheim takes place in 1939. Only a few men remain in the village to tend the house and the cattle.
The second evacuation took place in 1944. Again, a large part of the population fled, leaving about 350 people.
On December 8, 1944, the American army shelled the place with grenades. Houses in Kallenbachstrasse and Saarpfalz-Strasse (then still: Hauptstrasse) are hit. A woman is fatally injured by shrapnel. A little girl loses a leg. Then the troops withdraw.
On March 15, 1945, the place was heavily shelled by American artillery. Many houses are damaged and destroyed, including the church (approx. 40 hits), whose roof structure threatens to collapse and whose tower is badly damaged. Low-flying planes throw bombs, no house remains undamaged. Again there are dead and injured among the civilian population and the fleeing armed forces .
On March 16, 1945, American troops of the 63rd Infantry Division marched in from Ensheim. All men and boys between the ages of 12 and 65 are rounded up, interrogated and locked in the parsonage for five days under the strictest guard.
On March 17 and 19, 1945, the German artillery fired into the village. Again some houses burn down.
After the Second World War , the Saarland was internationalized again and meanwhile a partially sovereign state under French supervision. In 1955 a referendum was held, after which the area was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany as a federal state in 1957.
On January 1, 1974, Ommersheim was incorporated into the new municipality of Mandelbachtal as part of the regional reform of the Saarland .
religion
Ommersheim is mostly Catholic . The Catholics belong to the parish of the Visitation of Mary , which is assigned to the parish association St. Ingbert in the dean's office in Saarpfalz, which in turn is part of the diocese of Speyer . The Protestant Christians belong to the Protestant parish in Ensheim , which also has a church in Ormesheim .
politics
Local council
Distribution of seats in the local council :
(As of July 2014)
Mayor
The mayor is Stephan Piorko ( CDU ).
coat of arms
The coat of arms was designed by Erhard Dehnke from Saarbrücken and justified as follows: At the top of the shield a growing blue lion (heraldic animal of those von Steinkallenfels, County Nassau-Saarbrücken , and the Kingdom of Bavaria ), armored in red (tongue and claws) on a silver background, below silver pole on a blue background (Leyensche coat of arms). The municipality colors white and blue also indicate the time when the village belonged to the Bavarian kingdom.
On May 30, 1959 the coat of arms was ceremoniously awarded to the community by Minister of the Interior Kurt Conrad .
Parish partnership
There is a partnership with Vichte (Flanders / Belgium) that has been maintained for over 30 years.
Culture and sights
church
The Catholic parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a classicist building from the first half of the 19th century, which was greatly expanded and changed in character in 1970. The former church now forms the choir, which has significantly changed the character of the room.
The single-manual organ of the Stumm dynasty (4th generation) in the church dates from 1838 . According to the preserved records in the organ case, the instrument was installed on October 10, 1838. Thus, after the one in Wolfersweiler, it is the second oldest preserved in the Saarland and one of the oldest in the region. The authentic, late baroque oak casing and organ work survived almost unchanged due to early romantic influences. In the course of the renovation of the church, the organ was moved to the new gallery. The instrument was last thoroughly repaired in 2003.
| - | manual | pedal |
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| register | 15th | 3 |
| range | C - g '' ' | C - f ' |
More Attractions
The place has a modern Lourdes grotto , the architectural style of which reflects some elements of the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp by Le Corbusier .
- Tithe barn
- Old Town Hall
- Cross on the former "Luitpoldlinde"
- Ommersheimer Weiher local recreation facility
- Walking and hiking trails
Disused structures
Philippsburg Castle
Before it was destroyed, the castle was located in the Ommersheim district to the north, in the vicinity of the Niederwürzbacher Weiher. It was one of the most important early neo-Gothic buildings in Central Europe in the 18th century. Only the former servants' house (today forester's house) has been preserved. The castle was one of the five castles that the Counts von der Leyen had built around the Niederwürzbacher Weiher.
Weierscastel / Werexcastel
In the immediate vicinity of the former Philippsburg Palace there is an abandoned castle in the forest. Only sparse remains of walls and traces of a tower have been preserved from the medieval castle complex.
Regular events
- Ommersheim village festival (on the first weekend in July)
- Ommersheimer curb (on the first Sunday in October)
- Trofeo Karlsberg the municipality of Mandelbachtal is a partner of this Junior World Cup cycle race, which takes place annually on the weekend after Corpus Christi .
Personalities
- Jakob Weis (1879–1948), priest, author and division pastor in the First World War
- Hermann Hofmann (1880–1941), member of the Bavarian state parliament and the Reichstag
- Klara Barth (1880–1940), member of the Bavarian state parliament
- Norbert Weis (* 1950), cathedral chapter and official of the Speyer diocese
- Christian Schmitt (* 1981), member of the Saarland state parliament and parliamentary group chairman from 2009 to 2012
literature
- Tourist Association Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): Source of Joy - The Ommersheimer Weiher Mandelbachtal 2008.
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): The coats of arms of the municipality of Mandelbachtal and its eight municipal districts Mandelbachtal 2009.
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): Classic and modern - the Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Ommersheim Mandelbachtal 2013.
Web links
- Website of the district of Ommersheim
- Website of the municipality of Mandelbachtal
- Literature about Ommersheim in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 809 .
- ↑ Mariä Visitation, Ommersheim ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: cms.bistum-speyer.de, accessed on June 26, 2012
- ↑ Local councils Mandelbachtal (PDF; 263 kB), on: mandelbachtal.de, accessed on June 26, 2012
- ↑ Head of the Mandelbachtal community ( Memento from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 176 kB), on: mandelbachtal.de, accessed on June 26, 2012
- ↑ Page to the Lourdes grotto Ommersheim (Saarland)
